Time Thief (Ft. Horus) - 2025

Using the strenghts of the Horus and Armor XYZ engine, turn the Time Thief deck to a deck that can use the Rank 8 toolbox with ease, and unlock a few neat synergies. As well as finaly making Time Thief Temporwhal a core part of the strategy.

King's Sarcophagus combined with a lot of card that become useful once in the GY, and some retriavable cards (Full-Armored Xyz can be dumped twice, if you don't plan to use it's on field effect, by using Dark Knight Lancer's effect).

With King of the Feral Imps now being banned, our new main access to the Xyz Armor Fortress is Sakra Vendirage. Ideally we make it with a psychic monster as material, that we can detach with Winder so he can summon it back to give us an "early" Redoer. 

The equip effect of the Therion monsters can trigger Dark Knight Lancer.

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The ideal non interrupted bord would most of the time end on Dark Lancer, Therion "King" Regulus, Gigantic "Champion" Sargas, Silouhatte Rabbit, Redeor or Perpetua and both set Time Thief Power Reserve and Full Armored Xyz (to go into another Time Thief Xyz during the Standby phase), with idealy Time Thief Retrograde set as well.

Putting up a negate under 5 summon is quite easy thanks to the Horus engine with an early Photon lord, and most hands can go through a few interruptions.

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Things that could be changed righ now : Magicians' soul is really in to fix bad hands and put an Imsety in rotation if not available for some reasons.In a heavy handtrap format, i would swith it for your handtraps of choice. Once on the field i can only by used as link material. For that reason I could see siding in a Relinquished Anima. 

The Zombie Vampire, even if it's a bit risky, can fix youself both by giving you a look at your opponent deck and sending to your GY some of the missing Horus or Time Thief monsters you could need in rotation.

Game 2 going 2nd I would side out the field spells, Terraforming, and one of the Time thief trap. Side deck cards depicted here are personnal choices based on my local opponents usual decks, and could be switched for anything.