Serpentine Sovereignty

Let’s play with some Reptiles and their evolutions!
Deckmaster: Evoltile Megachirella 
Domain Restriction: FIRE // REPTILE // DINOSAUR // DRAGON

Made for Domain Format: https://discord.gg/9Uk2HbpNvN 

Main Combos
Turn 1: https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=889807-58977149

• Evoltile Megachirella -> Evolsaur Lios -> Miscellaneousaurus (GY) -> summon Animadorned Archosaur -> add Nauya, the Ogdoadic Remnant -> send/summon Keurse, the Ogdoadic Light -> summon Nauya, the Ogdoadic Remnant -> add Ogdoadic Daybreak -> summon tokens + Cosmic Slicer Zer'oll + Alien Shocktrooper M-Frame 

Turn 2: https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=889807-58977281 

40% of the cards blatently stolen from NamedElemental . Check out their deck here: https://ygoprodeck.com/deck/domain-reptpile-448123 
Deck writeup written by me.

Category Breakdown

Recursion Engine:

Keurse, the Ogdoadic Light, Undaunted Bumpkin Beast, Reptilianne Nyami, Miscellaneousaurus, I.A.S. -Invasive Alien Species-     

Dinosaur Package:

Miscellaneousaurus, Dinowrestler Pankratops, Dinowrestler Martial Ampelo, Souleating Oviraptor, Petiteranodon     

Deckmaster summons:

Xeno Meteorus, Evolsaur Diplo, Evolsaur Lios, Evolsaur Vulcano     

Card Access:

Viper's Grudge, Ogdoadic Daybreak, Nunu, the Ogdoadic Remnant, Black Mamba, Aron, the Ogdoadic King, Foolish Burial, Snake Rain       

This overall, is a deck that plays from the graveyard, ultilizing it’s ability to natively resummon key pieces of advantage generating monsters.

The strength of such a strategy is to outlast our opponents and eventually set up a state where our deck regains so much more per turn than our opponents, winning the war through attrition.

First let’s examine the deckmaster: Evoltile Megachirella 

What do we want our Deckmaster to do? 

- Turn 1 combo
- Refill XYZ materials
- Provide Ability to discard
- Access Dinosaur Engine ( Xeno Meteorus )
- Provide Spell/Trap destruction on demand ( Evolsaur Diplo )

Our deckmaster is surprisingly more versitile than they seem at first read. The ability to not only start our plays but continue to be extremely valuable throughout the entire game accumulates an unmatched advantage over decks with simple deckmasters. 

An underrated part of the deckmaster is access to Evolsaur Diplo, who destroys spells and traps on summon. Use this to destroy problematic floodgates or advantage generators. In addition, we regain this ablity once Evolsaur Diplo is shuffled back into deck by our recursion pieces.
Another target is Evolsaur Vulcano, which can immediatly resummon an evolsaur in our GY to make the Rank-4 Evolzar Dolkka.
Lastly, to synergize with the Dinosaur package, Evoltile Megachirella can summon Xeno Meteorus, destroying a monster summoned by Miscellaneousaurus and accessing synchro plays through that. 
  
The refill of XYZ material allows us to revive powerful XYZ monsters from the grave without losing access to their effects.
Many of our cards, like Aleirtt, the Ogdoadic Dark  only have effects in GY, so Evoltile Megachirella's discard cost to activate its effects happens to be beneficial. 

In a deck like this, a deckmaster like Evoltile Megachirella provides extremely valuable consistency and deck functionality

What do we want our dinosaurs to do? 

- big monster (Transcendosaurus Glaciasaurus)
- Search Field Spells ( Horned Saurus )
- Pop/neutralize monsters ( Ultimate Conductor Tyranno )
- Lasting staying power 

Dinosaurs are the second aspect of evolution for reptiles, and as such are much stronger and scarier. Our cards like Ultimate Conductor Tyranno can neutralize boards, Dinowrestler Pankratops can remove threats, and Transcendosaurus Glaciasaurus becomes a pain for our opponents to remove. The fantastic aspect of this deck is its ability to access all of this through Misc

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, we only have one Miscellaneousaurus. BUT we can access it multiple times using Aleirtt, the Ogdoadic Dark returning Miscellaneousaurus to GY! As we continue to use Miscellaneousaurus, we increase the arsenal of things it can access, and thus gets more powerful

The combos are here:

Using Misc for baby, then NS Deckmaster for Xeno:
[Banish 2]: Summon Petiteranodon who can be destroyed by using our Deckmaster to summon Xeno Meteorus 

Using Misc for Dinowrestler to access Pank:
[Banish 1]: Summon Dinowrestler Martial Ampelo who can search Dinowrestler Pankratops 

Using Misc for Extra Deck plays (after reshuffling key pieces of combo):
[Banish 4]: Summon Evolsaur Lios or Kaitoptera to summon Evolzar Lars or Horned Saurus respectivly

Example Combo for Turn 2 return Miscellaneousaurus to GY:
https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=889807-58977281    

The endboard monsters:

- Ultimate Conductor Tyranno // Transcendosaurus Glaciasaurus 
- Cosmic Slicer Zer'oll 
- Evolzar Lars // Evolzar Dolkka 
- Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon 

These are the key monsters we aim to stick around, either through revival effects or their inbuilt protection. Unfortunely, they do not provide much interactive power on their own, and require your playstyle to lay low and put survival above all. 
Their one key strength, however, is their strong potential as beatsticks. Therefore, you can easily use each battle phase as a method to break boards and chip in some damage. 

What do we want our Recursion to look like?

- Resummon Ogdoadics
- Resummon XYZ and Refill XYZ materials ( Evoltile Megachirella )
- I.A.S. -Invasive Alien Species-
- Resummon Reptilianne Nyami and Undaunted Bumpkin Beast 

This aspect here is the core of the deck. Every time we resummon Nauya, the Ogdoadic Remnant by Keurse, the Ogdoadic Light , we can add an Ogododic Spell or Trap. Aleirtt, the Ogdoadic Dark and Keurse, the Ogdoadic Light are both able to activate effects to special summon themselves from the GY.

Each time we resummon Aleirtt, the Ogdoadic Dark , we can another opportunity to use Miscellaneousaurus by returning it to GY from Banishment. Thus, we can summon yet another Dinosaur to the field every turn. 

I.A.S. -Invasive Alien Species- gets out of control very quickly with its ablity to resummon itself, destroy monsters, and increase its attack every turn. Given the plethera of powerful field spells people enjoy playing, this likely happens quite frequently.

Our free summons will continue until time ends, and through that, we make sure we always end up ahead every turn rotation.

What to recycle?

We may find the opportunity through Pot of Benevolence , Slash Draw , Salamangreat Charge , Fire Recovery or Jar of Avarice to return cards to deck. 

This is a powerful effect that allows us to use our deckmaster combos once more. Here is a list of combinations to consider:

• Evolsaur Lios + Evo-Singularity (access through Miscellaneousaurus or Deckmaster Evoltile Megachirella)
• Dinowrestler Pankratops + Dinowrestler Martial Ampelo (Use Miscellaneousaurus to access)
• Evolsaur Diplo (Spell/Trap destruction accessed through Evoltile Megachirella)
• Souleating Oviraptor  + Dogoran, the Mad Flame Kaiju / Ultimate Conductor Tyranno 

Notably, many of these combos rely on Miscellaneousaurus and involve Dinos. Make sure to confirm you have enough Dino resources to use Miscellaneousaurus after recycling resources back 

By recycling Evolsaur Diplo , you change your recycle spell into additionally allowing you to destroy a S/T for the LP cost of normal summoning your deckmaster and a discard.

Strange Stand-alone cards

These cards may seem off at first glance, but they have a reason for existing

• Polymerization 
  Searchable through Kaitoptera and summons Horned Saurus which searches Lair of Darkness 

• Volcanic Queen
  Searchable through Infernal Flame Banshee 

• Pot of Benevolence and Soul Release along with Gigantic Thundercross 
  Targets down opposing recursion engines

• Alien Stealthbuster, I.A.S. -Invasive Alien Species- 
  Searchable through Nauya, the Ogdoadic Remnant, and the plethora of reptile GY senders, in addition to "A" Cell Recombination Device and Mysterious Triangle 

• Frostosaurus
  The garnet nessisary for Xeno Meteorus to summon Transcendosaurus Glaciasaurus 

• Foolish Burial and Peaceful Burial
  Access to reptiles in the case that our combo is unsucessful

• Spright Sprind
  Sends Undaunted Bumpkin Beast or Reptilianne Nyami, which are recurring free summons from GY
  Can be made using tokens from Ogdoadic Daybreak or a link-2

• Pitknight Earlie
  Great card that is hard to fully remove from the field due to resummon when due by battle or card effect 

• Reptilianne Melusine
  Made using Reptilianne Coatl, a searchable reptile monster

• Shadow's Light or Duality 
  summons Aleirtt, the Ogdoadic Dark or Reptilianne Melusine 
• Lil-la Rap and Ebon Sun
  Provides ways to capitalize on the attrition gameplan by decreasing/increasing lifepoints directly. 

Foolish Burial targets list:

• Kaitoptera 
• Nunu, the Ogdoadic Remnant // Aron, the Ogdoadic King // Zohah, the Ogdoadic Boundless // Nephilabyss, the Ogdoadic Overlord 
• Night Sword Serpent // Vanguard of the Underground Emperor 
• Reptilianne Nyami // Undaunted Bumpkin Beast 
• Dinowrestler Martial Ampelo [usually thourgh Miscellaneousaurus] 
• I.A.S. -Invasive Alien Species- // Alien Stealthbuster [usually through "A" Cell Recombination Device]

Tips

• You don't like your Ogdoadic recursion pieces getting banished from the GY, so chain a revival spell to the banish to deny that. As a bonus, you can still activate their effects on summon even if they aren't summoned by their own effect!
  
  
• Horned Saurus can set a field spell from the GY as well as from Deck, so don't feel bad if you need to discard Lair of Darkness. Similarly, Kaitoptera can add Polymerization from GY, so Polymerization  can be discarded if need. 
• Be careful not to overuse the deckmaster Evoltile Megachirella. Discard fodder and life points are both finite, and this deck does not have in-combo ways to generate more of either. There are a total of 4 targets you can reasonably summon using it.
  
  
• Early access to Raika no Kurokamitsuki will ensure peace of mind against any continous spells/traps your opponent may attempt to keep around. This card can ensure consistant access to a spell/trap destruction effect by reviving itself from the GY. In a pinch, you can NS the deckmaster for fodder to activate its revival effect.
  
  
• You will need to massively alter your combo lines if you draw Animadorned Archosaur. Perhaps try to access King of the Feral Imps to search Nauya, the Ogdoadic Remnant in that scenerio.  
  • If you draw Evolsaur Lios, Normal Summon Lios and proceed to combo normally. Since Evo-Singularity needs an "Evoltile" monster in GY to activate: at the end of the combo use Cosmic Slicer Zer'oll's to NS your Deckmaster.  

• Kaitoptera is the only wind monster in your deck for Loud Cloud the Storm Serpent. Fortunely, it synergizes decently well with it.
  
  
• You have no way to destroy your own spells or traps. Therefore, Viper's Grudge is a huge commitment due to its restriction preventing you from activating effects of non-reptile monsters. However, its powerful effect should be worth enough that your opponents will prioritize getting rid of it for you.
  
  
• Between Lair of Darkness [ Horned Saurus ], Volcanic Queen [ Infernal Flame Banshee ], and Dogoran, the Mad Flame Kaiju [ Souleating Oviraptor ], this deck has plenty of accessible ways to remove threats that cannot be destroyed by card effects or targetted.
  
  
• Leaning on your varied recursion pieces to play an attrition gameplan should be the overall goal. The boards that this deck can make are not impressive on their own.  

Other considerations:
 Number 60: Dugares the Timeless, Galaxy Photon Dragon, Lavalval Chain, Planet Pollutant Virus, Bystial Magnamhut, The Tyrant Neptune, Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy, Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames, Card of Safe Return, Reptilianne Ramifications, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, [Night Sword Serpent  ] , Number 107: Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon, Jewels of the Valiant , Circle of the Fire Kings , Gizmek Kaku, the Supreme Shining Sky Stag , Five-Headed Link Dragon , Salamangreat Almiraj , Reptilianne Vaskii , [Stardust Trail] , Lava Golem, Kurikara Divincarnate , Dinomorphia Rexterm , Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf , Offering to the Snake Deity , Ragnaraika Armored Lizard , [ Vanguard of the Underground Emperor  ]

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